A speech-in-noise test based on spoken digits: Comparison of normal and impaired listeners using a computer model

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2470-2473

  Robertson, Matthew ^a   Brown, Guy J ^a   Lecluyse, Wendy ^b   Panda, Manasa ^b   Tan, Christine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory modelling; Hearing impairment; Speech perception; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUDITORY MODELING; AUDITORY MODELLING; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMPUTER MODELING; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEST PERFORMANCE; AUDITORY MODELS; COMPUTER MODELS; MISSING DATA; NOISE TEST; NORMAL HEARING; PERFORMANCE; SPEECH IN NOISE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79959859651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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